#IMMIGRATION

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[tk421-afk]

Absolutely stunned, gobsmacked and flabbergasted.

This perfectly describes my mother.

I…..don’t know what to do with this information but hopefully finally having an understanding for why she is acting like she is will help me help her?

This too:

In February, after voting for whom she did and for “why,” she hired an “illegal immigrant” to remodel her bathroom…. He was “one of the good ones,” was her justification and also the changes being made were meant to get rid of “bad illegals,” (no definition) and criminals.

I was utterly as speechless as I was after reading this. She expected me to be happy that she was giving one of the “good ones,” a job and money so he would be able to become “legal.”

The Shirley Exception

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

82-year old Luis Leon was tortured by the US-installed Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime. He was granted asylum in the U.S. and has been living there since 1987.

Howrver, he lost his wallet with his Green Card. So naturally, he went to get a replacement...and he was detained. After almost 3 weeks with no news from Luis, a woman claiming to be an immigration lawyer told his family he was dead.

A week later, a relative found out Luis was alive...but had been deported to Guatemala.

If you are in the U.S., please contact your reps to demand Luis' safe return.

[deathtokillian]

"It used to be you only had to worry about ICE in the winter, but now you have to worry about ICE all the time."

[rejectingrepublicans]

[andhumanslovedstories]

I know this is a very big question that I might also be overthinking (I am), and crowdsourcing answers on tumblr is not gonna be my only input, but I’ve been getting in my head about it and I think outside opinions might help. I’ve been tutoring a teenage boy from Ukraine—we say “tutoring” lmao we quickly devolved into just talking so much about video games once a week. Call it English practice. Anyway, I’m gonna have dinner with his family soon, all of whom have limited mastery of English. I met them through volunteering with a refugee organization.

Do people with experience leaving countries due to war or other big events like that have any insight into how much or little to discuss the past? I know I am overthinking this and that all human beings are unique, etc etc, but I have such little personal framework for this major part of their life that I keep trying to figure out if there is a really obvious misstep I could make without knowing. Or really more importantly: I’d like the dinner to go as well as possible and to give them a very nice time. I hope that will happen regardless, but like…I wanna really crush it. You know?

I guess very broadly speaking: if you can relate at all to the family’s situation, is there something someone could have done to make you feel particularly welcome? Or is there anything…Ukrainian we could do that they might enjoy? These feel like kinda silly questions, but I’d very much appreciate insight.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

And quite frankly, even if it were true that it was "only the worst of the worst," they should not be locked in a concentration camp.

Let's set aside questions about any crimes a person may or may not have committed and debates about what they deserve. All people should have basic human rights.

Human rights are meant to be rights guaranteed to all humans. No matter how disgusted we might be by an individual and no mattter how many times a crime might cause us to instinctually think, "That person is a monster," we cannot allow a system that strips then of their basic human rights. That person is a human, and they are entitled to those rights.

If a country allows one person to be stripped of human rights, they will allow it to happen to anyone.

All a country has to do to strip anyone of their rights in such a system is to accuse that person of a certain crime. Then, rightly or wrongly accused, the person loses their rights.

In such a system, the government will inevitably expand on the list of offenses thar allows it to strip people of their rights, and the burden of proof the prosecution must provide will decrease.

I'll believe that "only the worst of the worst" end up in Alligator Alcatraz when it's full of ICE agents.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

ICE = Gestapo. Yes, it's that simple, and yes, you're a horrible person if you support them in any way, shape, or form.

(Pt.2)

[probablyasocialecologist]

From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 million workers across the sector. This includes 27% of agricultural workers nationwide and 33% of meatpackers. In restaurants, 46% of chefs and 31% of cooks were born outside the US – mostly in Mexico, China, Guatemala and El Salvador. These jobs are critical: immigrants made up a disproportionate number of “essential” workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many were exposed to unsafe conditions so that crops could be harvested, cows milked and takeout delivered.

[...]

American food companies rely on undocumented people for almost half of the most physical jobs, including the farm laborers who cultivate crops, tend livestock and build fences, as well as the meat processors who slaughter, eviscerate and package at high speeds.

[...]

If the Trump administration oversees even a fraction of its promised mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants, it could lead to major disruptions across the food system: crops left to spoil in the fields, supermarket shelves unstocked, takeout deliveries delayed and food prices soaring even higher. It could also upend rural economies that depend on migrant workers and their families who live, work and go to school in small declining communities.

17 July 2025

[onlytiktoks]

[daisukitoo]

All the better if he lives somewhere completely incongruous like Midwest suburbia rather than rural Texas. Americans want you to out-America America.

[itscolossal]

Five Latinx Artists Explore Materiality, Identity, and Belonging in ‘Los Encuentros’

[sweetfirebird]

Alan Cumming being incredible (as usual). Amazing from start to finish.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Li Zhou at HuffPost:

President Donald Trump once promised to focus on the “worst of the worst” as he sought to ramp up immigrant deportations, but a recent interview from his acting ICE chief underscored just how far the administration has departed from that vow. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doubling down on arresting undocumented immigrants without criminal histories, Todd Lyons, the acting head of the federal body, told CBS’s Camilo Montoya-Galvez in an exclusive interview. “Under this administration, we have opened up the whole aperture of the immigration portfolio,” he said. “If we encounter someone that isn’t here in the country legally, we will take them into custody.”

That approach marks a sharp break from the policies of the Biden administration, which directed agents to apprehend undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds, those who posed a national security threat and those who had entered the U.S more recently, CBS notes. It’s also counter to claims that the Trump administration once made about focusing on those with serious criminal records, and prompted sharp blowback as ICE agents have targeted everyone from a high school student driving to sports practice to immigrants attending routine court hearings. Of the roughly 100,000 deportations ICE has documented between Jan. 1 and June 24, about 70,000 involved a person with a criminal conviction, a CBS review of internal government data found. And just a small fraction of those who faced criminal convictions did so for violent offenses, Montoya-Galvez noted. (Living in the U.S. without documentation is a civil offense and not a criminal offense, Vanity Fair notes.) “We can’t look at it just based on violence,” Lyons said in the CBS interview.

[...] Lyons noted, too, that agents will continue to wear masks during enforcement actions, due to concerns for their privacy and personal safety, a move that has garnered criticism for shielding officers from accountability and inspiring fear in immigrants who are approached by them. “I’m not a proponent of the masks; however, if that’s a tool that the men and women of ICE use to keep themselves and their families safe, then I’ll allow it,” he said.

Sociopathic ICE Chief Todd Lyons endorses the draconian arrests of undocumented immigrants without any criminal history, a far cry from the Trump Regime’s BS focus on just the “worst of the worst”.